About WES

WES is the specialist fire safety and construction division of Ramtech Electronics Limited.

Ramtech is a wireless technology specialist with over 25 years’ experience in designing and manufacturing radio based safety and security solutions to meet challenging environmental conditions in the leisure industry. This experience, together with extensive investment in ongoing product research and development, lead to the launch in 2010 of our market leading, award winning WES system for the construction industry.

The second generation, WES, launched in 2014 and saw the entire product range re-designed and re-engineered to build on the success of WES with market leading legislative compliance and strongly improved usability. WES+ fire safety is a wireless fire alert system that’s been specifically engineered by our in-house research and development team, working closely with major construction companies, to deliver effective, flexible fire protection that meets the very latest Health & Safety legislation for construction sites.

About Ramtech

Ramtech Electronics has specialised in custom-engineered wireless safety and security technology since 1990. We have supplied over 50,000 WES units to construction projects around the world and installed over 75,000 wireless intruder alarms to the leisure home and holiday park market.

With over 25 years’ experience in designing and manufacturing radio based safety and security solutions, we pride ourselves on our high standards, from design and manufacture through to customer service and support.

The WES fire alarm system Base Station delivers extensive system reporting and configuration functionality for the fire alarm system across your construction site.

It’s wireless and battery powered, so there’s no need for an inflexible fixed, wired control panel – the Base Station has all the reporting functionality you need combined with the mobility and reusability of the rest of the WES product range.

includes programming functions, so you can edit site name and SMS numbers directly from your Base Station.

System Log records activations and warnings, so you can monitor activity and history across your whole WES system

GSM version available, enabling up to 6 users to receive configurable SMS notifications of alarm, tamper or system faults.

Access code protection of all system settings and alarm reset for maximum accountability

Unit numbering, enabling easy identification of activated units directly from the base station

The Fire Alarm Call Point from WES is the primary alert unit in the WES wireless emergency system range. The unit incorporates fire alarm sounder, optional strobe alert, and a manual call point for activating the alarm.

Affix units around the site in accordance with your fire plan and they will create a completely secure mesh network, forming a site-wide alarm that can be manually triggered from any call point.

Integrated siren and manual call point with optional built-in strobe for high visibility

Battery life tested to 3+ years, reducing lifetime costs and need for constant replacement and improving compliance with waste regulations

Unit numbering to aid pinpointing of triggering unit in the event of an alarm. Add, remove and clone units in a few button presses

Transit mode to allow safe removal and storage without any risk of activation

The WES REACT call point features a Medical Alert features which can be raised from any Call point on site. For more information on all features of WES REACT watch the WES REACT Video.

Protect your site round the clock by adding automatic detection units to your WES fire safety solution. These battery powered detectors are easy to install, straightforward to use and can be operational within minutes.

All units both send and receive radio signals, for maximum robustness of network coverage. Since detection units are incorporated into your WES network, they will they act as an early warning of fire risk to all site staff during the working day and they’ll also make sure that the site remains protected out of hours.

If you add a GSM base station, you can even make sure that security and monitoring personnel receive a text alert if the fire alarm is automatically triggered.

The WES fire alarm Interface lets you connect your WES temporary fire alarm to other systems, such as turnstiles, so that you can ensure your emergency systems are working together as efficiently as possible to protect your site.

Input: Connect so that the WES fire alarm system can be triggered to sound the alarm by an external system

Output: Connect so that the WES system going into alarm triggers an action on the part of an external system, eg auto dialler or access control

Note that the Interface cannot be connected directly to the mains current, and you will need a suitably qualified person to wire together the units.

Most likely, you’ll never need a radio repeater unit for your WES system – each unit has excellent wireless range already. However, if you do receive a low signal warning, for example if a far-off fire point becomes more obscured as a build progresses and starts to lose signal, you can add a Link unit to boost the signal and make sure your fire alarm system continues to work optimally.

The WES fire alarm system Base Station delivers extensive system reporting and configuration functionality for the fire alarm system across your construction site.

It’s wireless and battery powered, so there’s no need for an inflexible fixed, wired control panel – the Base Station has all the reporting functionality you need combined with the mobility and reusability of the rest of the WES product range.

Includes programming functions, so you can edit site name and SMS numbers directly from your Base Station.

System Log records activations and warnings, so you can monitor activity and history across your whole WES system

GSM version available, enabling up to 6 users to receive configurable SMS notifications of alarm, tamper or system faults.

Access code protection of all system settings and alarm reset for maximum accountability

Unit numbering, enabling easy identification of activated units directly from the base station

The Fire Alarm Call Point from WES is the primary alert unit in the WES wireless emergency system range. The unit incorporates fire alarm sounder, optional strobe alert, and a manual call point for activating the alarm.

Affix units around the site in accordance with your fire plan and they will create a completely secure mesh network, forming a site-wide alarm that can be manually triggered from any call point.

Integrated siren and manual call point with optional built-in strobe for high visibility

Battery life tested to 3+ years, reducing lifetime costs and need for constant replacement and improving compliance with waste regulations

Unit numbering to aid pinpointing of triggering unit in the event of an alarm. Add, remove and clone units in a few button presses

Transit mode to allow safe removal and storage without any risk of activation

Protect your site round the clock by adding automatic detection units to your WES fire safety solution. These battery powered detectors are easy to install, straightforward to use and can be operational within minutes.

All units both send and receive radio signals, for maximum robustness of network coverage. Since detection units are incorporated into your WES network, they will they act as an early warning of fire risk to all site staff during the working day and they’ll also make sure that the site remains protected out of hours.

If you add a GSM base station, you can even make sure that security and monitoring personnel receive a text alert if the fire alarm is automatically triggered.

The WES fire alarm Interface lets you connect your WES temporary fire alarm to other systems, such as turnstiles, so that you can ensure your emergency systems are working together as efficiently as possible to protect your site.

Input: Connect so that the WES fire alarm system can be triggered to sound the alarm by an external system

Output: Connect so that the WES system going into alarm triggers an action on the part of an external system, eg auto dialler or access control

Note that the Interface cannot be connected directly to the mains current, and you will need a suitably qualified person to wire together the units.

WES+ Link Unit

The Radio Repeater Link unit is the simple, cost-effective way to extend the range of your WES temporary fire alarm system on very large-scale sites.

Simply connect to your existing WES units, set up on site and the unit will act as a relay to link geographically separated sections of the site together.

Do I need a link?

Most likely, you’ll never need a radio repeater unit for your WES system – each unit has excellent wireless range already. However, if you do receive a low signal warning, for example if a far-off fire point becomes more obscured as a build progresses and starts to lose signal, you can add a Link unit to boost the signal and make sure your fire alarm system continues to work optimally.